Monday, December 15, 2008

If you live in New England, like I do, you become accustomed to a plethora of weather... and try to roll with the punches, because you live here... right? Well, the Ice Storm that came through last Thursday night was pretty scary. We lost power around 10:30pm that evening and went to bed under extra covers, listening to the snapping of limbs and crashing of trees in the distance... not my best nights sleep. Thankfully, any damage that we sustained was pretty minor and the most difficult part of the whole experience was entertaining three kids. =)

After "camping out" in our family room in front of the fire for a few nights, we were lucky that our power was restored at 11:00pm on Saturday night - truly, I channeled Tom Hanks in Castaway when he finally creates fire - bouncing around on the couch saying WE HAVE POWER! I can go without a lot of modern conveinences, but working toilets and hot showers is not one of them. =)

Hopefully, everyone will have their power restored soon as well - more than 300,000 homes in Mass. and NH still don't have power - and that those families at least have someplace warm to go. We had spent the day with friends in town on Saturday, they kindly took us in for showers/baths/dinner, which really helped lighten our moods... well, mine was probably the only one that needed lightening at that point. =)

I have posted a few photos that I took on Friday, after the storm. It was surreal how the entire landscape was coated and sparkling in ice.... and then the sun came out and there was a gorgeous sunset, hope springs eternal.

This will certainly be a Christmas to remember. Count your blessings today!

I've been reading about that ice storm on the news and was thinking about you. I'm glad everyone's okay and you got all your power back. A few years back in the middle of the night we lost power when it was 40 below zero out. Certainly weren't happy when we woke up seeing our breath, but thankfully that outage was no more than about 6-8 hours long. Can't imagine 3 whole days!

Love the pictures you took. Surely this'll be a winter for you to remember ... Happy holidays. =)

Certainly counting my blessing after this good read. We are scheduled to be hit in the morning with a really bad storm. I have already gone to the store and I plan to stay in and work. The road is no place to be out there. I am glad that all of your family is safe. Take care.